Against the background of an 81-year-old water agreement, US President Donald Trump Mexico threatened to do tariffs and sanctions. “We will expand the consequences, including tariffs and maybe even sanctions until Mexico adheres to the agreement,” Trump explained on Thursday (local time) in the Truth Social online service. Mexico violates an agreement from 1944 and stealed farmers in Texas water.
The decade -old agreement concerns mutual water deliveries from the rivers Rio Grande and Colorado River. According to the border and water commission of the two countries, Mexico currently owes the United States more than 1.55 billion cubic meters of water. According to Trump, the only sugar factory in Texas had to close due to water shortages last year.
In March, the US government had therefore rejected a request for the first request by Mexico for a special delivery of river water. The water from the Colorado River would have been intended for the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Mexico justifies its lack of water deliveries with a drought in the Rio Grande Becken, which has been in last two decades.
